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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums

Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...

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Dynamic Competition in Pharmaceuticals: Patent Expiry, Generic Penetration, and Industry Structure

Magazzini, Laura; Pammolli, Fabio; Riccaboni, Massimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper investigates patterns of industrial dynamics and competition in the pharmaceutical industry, with particular reference to the consequences of patent expiry in different countries. We focus on the competition at the level of single chemical entities, distinguishing between original...

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Non-Economic and Economic Factors in the Decision to Obtain a Pap Smear: The Case of Women Residents in the State of Florida

Alexander, Gigi; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this first-time-ever such study of the adult female population in the state of Florida, the percentage of the women 18 to 44 years of age within each county in the state of Florida in 2007 who had received a Pap smear during the past year was a decreasing function of the percentage of women...

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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi

Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...

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Public health services and health care utilization in Viet Nam

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been...

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Needs, Modes and Efficiency of Economic Organizations and Public Interventions in Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

There has been a fundamental development in theory and understanding of market, private, collective and public organizations in recent years. This paper incorporates achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law,...

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Exit from the Hospital Industry

Ciliberto, Federico; Lindrooth, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We study the exit of hospitals from the market for inpatient services. More generous hospital reimbursement … significantly reduces the probability of exit throughout the 1990s. Conditional on reimbursement levels, hospital efficiency was not …-profit hospitals were more likely to exit. The role of Medicare as a determinant of exit became less important in the latter half of …

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Consumer Learning and Heterogeneity: Dynamics of Demand for Prescription Drugs after Patent Expiration

Ching, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

generics for price-sensitive patients is faster than that for price-insensitive patients, causing the proportion of price …-insensitive patients faced by brand-name firms to slowly increase over time; (b) the brand-name price elasticities of demand (evaluated at …

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The Effects of Product Ageing on Demand: The Case of Digital Cameras

Lou, Weifang; Prentice, David; Yin, Xiangkang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The static differentiated product demand model when applied to products with rapid product turnover and declining prices, yields implausible results. One response is to explicitly model the inter-temporal choices of consumers but computational demands require restrictive assumptions on consumer...

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Australian residential telecommunications consumption and substitution patterns

Madden, Gary G; Coble-Neal, Grant - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Better telecommunications pricing decisions are able to be made when more complete information concerning relationships among services is available. This study analyses residential fixed-line and mobile telephony, and Internet access and usage demands in an encompassing framework. The...

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